Decide what paragraph styles you'll use on the top-level headings, the second-level headings, and so on.So in this illustration, the heading Types of Bread has the Heading2 style applied. You can use existing ones such as Heading1 through Heading10 (recommended) or create your own.įor instance, in this document I decided that the first heading (chapter) would have Heading1 paragraph style applied the second level down would have Heading2 paragraph style applied, and so on. Paragraph styles are here choose Format > Styles and Formatting. So plan and apply the paragraph styles that set up the structure of the document. should be applied to the headings in the document. Writer knows what to put in the TOC based on what paragraph styles you tell it to look at. Page numbers will be correct, etc.Ĭreating a Table of Contents: Step 1, Select and Apply Paragraph Styles If you make changes to the document, then right-click on the TOC and choose Update, the TOC will automatically reflect the changes in the document. You can change how each level looks just by modifying certain styles more on that later. The gray part doesn't print it's just there to indicate that there's something automatic happening. It is so much easier to create one automatically. However, I wanted to also make one that's just here in the web site, and with fewer details.
#How to insert page numbers in openoffice writer documents how to#
I've got this post with a PDF from my workbooks on how to create tables of contents. One applied to the second page, with different formatting and footer contents applied to each. You now have one page style applied to the first page and a different The page number doesn't appear on the first page. Format it as desired, center it, add the word "page" in front of it, or any other changes you want. Click in the footer and choose Insert > Fields > Page Number.ġ4. You now have a footer in the Default page style (second page and subsequent pages) where you can insert a page number.ġ3. You can modify one without changing the other.ġ2. You now have one page style applied to the first page and a different one applied to the second page. Don't worry about the 3/3, that's related to the option that you set earlier and won't affect page numbering. If you want page 2 to have a page number other than 2, select the checkbox and type the page number such as 1 in the box.ġ0. Select Default as the style that you want to switch to, in the dropdown list.ĩ. Click at the point in your document where you want to switch to page 2.Ĩ. You can see that it's applied in the lower left corner.Ħ. It will be highlighted and applied to your whole document no matter how many pages you have. Click the indicated Page Styles icon, fourth from the left.ĥ. You don't have to do it all, but let's say you've got some there.ģ. Type the content you want on the first page. Now: How to have no page number on the first page, and have the page number on the second page start with either 1, or 2.Ģ. Don't worry about it just turn it off unless you are doing books. This inserts an even page between two odds. Turn OFF the "Print automatically inserted blank pages" option. This one works when you save in Word format.)įirst: Choose Tools > Options > Writer > Printing. (There are two easier ways, but with those ways, you lose the formatting if you save the document in.
This time I'm just going to show you how to do it using existing page styles, which takes a little of the complexity out. I used the approach of creating the page styles you used. I've posted before about how to have no page number on the first page.
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